Ursula K. Le Guin gives a powerful speech at the National Book Awards

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This speech really hit me, I was initially interested because of her indictment of lit-fic snobs - an argument I've been having since college, but her points on Capitalism and Amazon and the commodification of art were even more powerful.
But when she talked about looking back at the end of her career, I got a little choked up. She is such a treasure.
I read the Earthsea Trilogy (at that time that's all it was!) when I was a kid 30 years ago, and I've just rediscovered her more mature work. She is a prophetic and powerful voice. The Left Hand of Darkness is a mind-blowing examination of gender.
I saw Kim Stanley Robinson speak a few weeks ago, and I swear I saw her in the audience, but it was in Phoenix and I have no idea why she would have been in town with him (although they both fall into the anarcho/enviromental/feminist sci-fi crowd).